It involves a grandfather who died in 1961
and a signature a few years back in California.
I am waiting for the provable details.
Nevertheless, here's one excerpt from the story and can you guess what drew my attention?
A Palestinian Authority document shows that Sumarin died in 1961, when his grandson says he was around 80. The grandson and a grandnephew said the elder Sumarin was buried near a fragile olive tree in the village cemetery. From there, Migron is visible on a hilltop to the east.
That's right: the tree.
A 47 year old olive tree is anything but fragile.
Maybe the story is fragile?
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As a meticulous parser of words in search of biases and such you should have done a better job here: when they say "was buried near a fragile olive tree" they most likely refer to the state of the tree at the time of the burial, not today, which means it could be very young and fragile. On the other hand, nothing indicates that the tree is 47 years old either, it could be a thousand years old tree, for all we know, already in 1961 and could be fragile for any number of reasons. If this is the best "fragility" you could come up with in connection to the story... In fact, the story looks tight.
The question is, suppose you get your "provable details"; would you support evacuation of Migron and criminal persecution of people involved in the fraud? Or is your idea of justice the same as of the quoted Itay Harel (""This land belongs to the people of Israel..." etc)?
Peter, Peter, meticulous reader:
how did the writer know it was fragile even then? but never mind.
I have been a supporter of the Yesha Council initiative to move Migron. I have stated numerous times that private Arab land should remain exactly that and should not be used for Jewish residency unless properly purchased - like most of Israel during the Mandate days.
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